Man, aged 18, charged with raping an 82 year old woman twice, allegedly attacking her as she was taking an early morning walk in a park. On Mother’s Day. He is most unlikely to have found her irresistably physically desirable: her vulnerability was most probably the key.
Why the newspaper calls a legal adult a youth I don’t know. Read more »
Our Guest Hoyden author is regular commentor Su.
In April Lauredhel blogged the NSW RSPCA Community Service Announcement that contained scenes of a man beating and kicking a woman, overdubbed with audio of a yelping dog. The justification for the ad was an established link between animal cruelty and interpersonal violence. But seriously, dehumanising women and leveraging their trauma to sell your animal cruelty message? – that is some twisted thinking, sister. Read more »
Image of the Prague skyline courtesy of Pavelm - licenced under Creative Commons. Read more »
Rather bemused to find this story through Shakesville via Mark Steyn via Tim Blair via Currency Lad, but they’ve got Bob Ellis bang to rights regarding Read more »
effectuating
as in “effectuating real change”.
Please, sweet Flying Spaghetti Monster, make the compulsive adding of redundant syllables stop.
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We Australians aren’t really much for learning languages other than English. We’re quite comfy in our dominant language, and when travelling overseas - or to areas of Australia where English isn’t the vast-majority language - many of us expect others to cater to us linguistically, not the other way around. Read more »
You're a leading teacher - ie, one of the poor mugginses on which the schools rely to run their extra-curricular programmes - and you've done poorly out of the new pay deal. So poorly, in fact, that your wage will effectively decrease as it's been locked in below inflation, just to punish you for taking on extra work to give kids a comprehensive education. Read more »
Good to see a mainstream newspaper finally feeling able to use the expression "religious nutjobs" in print.I wonder how many years we'll have to wait until they feel comfortable with "gibbering f*ck-knuckles". I can't wait!
Except of course, they aren’t. Our world is chemicals, our life is chemistry.
This rant is brought to you by yet another TV talking head rabbiting on about
“natural remedies, not those chemical ones” Read more »
For many commentators, the political right is just a blur. The various labels - conservative, neoliberal, neoconservative, New Right, economic rationalist - are thrown around according to fashion as much as meaning. Six years ago (pdf) I wrote an article on how ‘New Right’ was largely squeezed out by ‘economic rationalism’, which in turn was being challenged by ‘neoliberalism’, now the favourite. Read more »
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